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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Risk and Uncertainty"”.
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RISK AND UNCERTAINTY (UTILITY, DECISION)
… conventional theory of decision making under risk relies on axioms that reflect assumptions about people's subjective attitudes towards wealth. The assumptions are unverifiable, and the axioms are too restrictive. They forbid some decision rules that a plausibly rational decision maker ("DM") …
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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Trading Markets
… enforcement, financial feasibility, and third party verification. Cutting across these concepts are a variety of risks and uncertainties. These risks play a major role in developing effective market designs that achieve aggregate emission caps while encouraging market participation …
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Microfoundations Approach to Risk and Uncertainty in the Uppsala Internationalization Process
… cognition for entering business in high-risk locations. Consequently, findings challenge the Uppsala model’s longstanding stance concerning the risk-internationalization association governed by strict firm-level analysis. I examine CEO decision-making through the lens of their values, …
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Risk and Uncertainty in Healthcare Finance, Investment Management, and Asset Pricing
Measuring and managing risk and uncertainty has been a ongoing challenge for academics and practitioners in finance and economics. At its core, the challenge requires to understand both the randomness in the underlying process as well as the way humans respond to it when making decisions. This …
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Consumers' purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty: three essays on food authenticity
… explores consumers’ purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty. Specifically, the role of subjective beliefs, risk and ambiguity attitudes, and information. I focus on food purchasing decisions with uncertainty about the quality generated by food fraud.<br/><br/>The first essay uses an …
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Econometric models of Western Canada crop acreage demand and yield response under risk and uncertainty
… supply response by decomposing it into acreage and yield responses for Western Canada grains, using aggregate data across provinces for 1961-1995. This study follows a similar study for Manitoba by Mundang (1996). Acreage demands are estimated by employing duality models and allowing risk …
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Simulating the Adoption of Soil Conservation Management Systems Under the Conditions of Uncertainty (Erosion, Control)
… a planning horizon of more than one year, risk and uncertainty enter into the plans. Over time it is difficult to predict farm income due to variability in prices, costs, interest rates, weather, crop yields, and other unpredictable factors. Any long-term planning will be incomplete if it …
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Aspirations and expectations: investigating the development of ‘possible selves’ of young people in UK secondary education
… year 9 students at two schools in southern England, particularly as it relates to participation in higher education. It utilises the concept of possible selves to investigate how they imagine themselves in the future. Its mixed methods approach has employed Q methodology and semi-structured …
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Decision-making and Strategic Management as Sources of Sustained Competitive Advantage in a High Cost Private Multi-campus University in México
… (from now on HEI) are facing a tremendous and complex environment nowadays, due to the changes that this sector has experimented in the last years. Strategy in HEI is dynamic and there are several variables to consider when developing a strategy that can achieve sustained competitive …
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Designing for cyber security risk-based decision making.
Techniques for determining and applying cyber security decisions typically follow risk- based analytical approaches where alternative options are put forward based on goals and context, and weighed in accordance to risk severity metrics. These decision making approaches are however difficult to …
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Benefit-cost analysis as applied to insect pest control programs
… to evaluate the social value of on-going and proposed forest insect control programs is presented. Chapter two briefly discusses some economic concepts used in benefit-cost analysis. Those discussed are: consumer's surplus, social discount rate, shadow prices, characteristics of social …
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Understanding the effects of uncertainty on the macroeconomy and financial markets
… works have illustrated distinct roles of risk and uncertainty in financial markets. However, there is no consensus on measurement of uncertainty. Financial uncertainty and macroeconomic uncertainty are commonly proxied separately by the volatility of stock returns or key macroeconomic …
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Uncommon ground : property, coordination, and rebuilding New Orleans
… decisions must be made by both government and investors with respect to reconstitution of New Orleans' housing stock and neighborhoods. For investors, risk and uncertainty abound. For planners, a careful balance between property rights and comprehensive planning is required. The fate of …
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Simulation-based valuation of project finance investments in sub-Saharan Africa and its effects on net present value and default probabilities
… infrastructure projects located in emerging and frontier market countries. These are economies which, traditionally, have been characterised as having high levels of risk and uncertainty, thus presenting a significant challenge to capital allocation decisions and the associated theme of …
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The Limits of Screening
… that focusing on effectiveness obscures a deeper and different set of issues. The central claim is that understanding and justifying cancer screening requires attention to its moral dimensions. Ethical issues arise throughout the debate— not only in constructing a theory of effectiveness, but also …
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Optimally aggregating elicited expertise : a proposed application of the Bayesian Truth Serum for policy analysis
Uncertainty and risk are obstacles that nearly all policy-makers encounter during their careers. However, evaluating uncertainty and risk can be difficult since these concepts may be broadly defined. This may result in inaccurate estimates of risk and uncertainty. Expert elicitation is a formal, …
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Analysis of corn harvesting and grain handling systems in northeastern Virginia
Typical grain and combination grain and Livestock farms in Northeastern Virginia were selected for study of the available resources and their restrictions for harvesting, handling, drying and storing corn. The costs involved in various combinations of machinery and equipment for performing the …
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BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND ON-FARM CAPITAL INVESTMENT
Business risk management (BRM) programs can help reduce the risk inherent in the agricultural industry that is associated with income variability. These programs are commonly in the form of insurance (production insurance, net margin insurance, etc.). There is a vast literature on investment …
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Superfuture: How global superminds can use immersive experiences to build a positive future
… the ever increasing crisis due to global warming and the ensuing risk and uncertainty, there is an urgent need for organizations to develop resilience and adaptability. In this paper, I propose ways that immersive experiences can provide new pathways for change. Through examination of 16 case …
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